Amish Farm

Scottsville, KY

Today was my annual 'get everything I need for winter' from my favorite Amish Farm.  I usually go once a week all spring and summer long to get my fresh produce and fruit.  I just love this place.  So today I decided to capture a picture of the farm itself and if you look in the distance at the farm house you will see smoke coming out of the chimney.  I also went to the 'Jam House', and the dry goods store.  They were fully stocked and the wonderful smells are worth the trip.

This one of the most relaxing and enjoyable trips I make each week and I have learned to talk to the people and created a little relationship with them.  They also recognize me when I enter.  That is so nice. 

Lately, also, I have been reading a lot of books on Amish life, as seen through the eyes of Beverly Lewis.  I just love her books and she is spot on and truthful.

Thanks for letting me share my day with you and I have some fantastic photos of projects I will be sharing shortly.

Remember, try something new today and happy scrappin'.

Sandra

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Cover

Very colorful and inviting.  Jump in - take a look!

Pages 2 & 3

A cute flower frame is all set to hold a photo of the birthday girl.  Pull up the hat and it is a tag.  You can have a pic on each side.  Change it out when you want to.  

Page 4 & 5

Lots of gifts and a wooden little girl carrying a handful.  Page 5 is a waterfall page.  Each page lifts up for journaling and photos.  

So easy to make and it holds gobs of photos!

Pages 6 & 7

Page 6

A mirror of page 5.  Cute!

Page 7

Pull tags and booklets to open and add photos.  Lots of space.

Tags and booklet.

Back of book with a large booklet to add even more photos and journaling.

Back of book.

Happy Birthday

To You!

A beautiful 8x8 acrylic birthday book.  This book will hold lots of photos of the party and the birthday person.  It is a delightful way to show the pictures of a special day and a special birthday person.  In this book I have mixed the acrylic pages with wooden accents.  Each page also has a colorful yellow dotted ribbon on the left edge of the page.  

Take your time to look at the book and feel free to try one for yourself.  You will not be disappointed.  

Remember try something new today and happy scrappin'.

Sandra

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Summer CanCan

This summer I had the pleasure of teaching my youngest daughter, Kristeen how to can.  We not only worked hard, we had fun together.  We are both concerned with giving our families the best of fruits and vegetables with no sugar and no preservatives.  We are going all organic and natural.  Canning is the way to do it.

The vegetables we bought from the Amish farmers at a very low price.  The rest was up to us.

The recipe for homemade spaghetti sauce was my mothers'.  Just 1 bushel of medium tomatoes go a long way and the taste is exquisite.  I have always missed those times of canning with mom and now I can teach my daughters to can and pass on my knowledge to them.  I know someday they will in turn pass it on again.

Thanks for checking in and happy scrappin'.  Remember to try something new today.

Sandra  

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It's Canning Time

As many of you know I was in Florida last week canning fruit and vegetables with my daughter, Kristeen.  Here is the 'fruits' of our labor.  The temp outside was into the 100's and the temp inside was well into the 80's.  Needless to say we were hot, sweaty and by night very tired.

The first thing we tackled were all the tomatoes.  What you see above is mine.  Kris had 10 more quarts.  So total we got 20 quarts from 4 bushels of tomatoes we bought from the Amish for 8.00 per box.  Fabulous!!

Our 2nd project was the corn.  We purchased 2 overflowing bushels of fresh corn on the cob from the Amish at 15.00 per bushel.  We harvested 21 quarts from the 2 bushels.  Can you believe it!!!!!

Our final project was 2 bushels of fresh peaches.  We made our own simple syrup from fruit pectin.  No sugar.  We each got  15 quarts per bushel.  So we ended up canning 30 quarts of peaches.  

We had fun working together.  

Our next plan is to both try our hand at applesauce.  Remember our food has no preservatives or sugar.  We have gone completely natural and we are healthier for it!

Today I am making my spaghetti sauce.  I got 2 bushels more of tomatoes and I just finished putting it in the roaster to cook down and I will can it later today.  Bill is out shucking all the corn.  We are going to freeze our corn.  We cut it off the cobs and I put 2 cups in bags for the freezer.  

Well, folks, I think that is enough for today.  Whew, I am tired already, but a good and satisfying tired.  Tomorrow is church and I will be glad for the day of rest.

Have a great weekend, and I will be scrapping all these photos and sharing.

Remember, try something new today and happy scrappin'.

Sandra

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Travel - Suitcase Shaped Mini Album Class

Travel Book - Suitcase Shaped Book Class

On Saturday, July 24th, I held my travel book class at Scrapbook Village in KY.  We had a great group and so much fun.  The ladies really enjoyed making their vacation treasure and will finish each page on their own.  Hopefully at the time of retreat in November I will be able to see their finished product.

We took our time making the cover and the ladies did so well.  It is so satisfying to watch them and lead them through the process of creating and building their book for those precious memories.  Everyone has their own special and unique take on a page, book or other project they are making.  It is fun to see how they take and add their own personality and sense of design.

We had so much fun together, lots of laughs and lots of talk. 

Below I am going to be offering a class on "Christmas Cookies".  We will be making a jar book with our favorite recipes and using the Cookbookin' line of papers.  I must say right out, that Cookbookin' is my favorite line and I am always looking for ways to showcase the line.  Love it!!!

Thanks for checking in today and remember to try something new today.  

Happy Scrappin',

Sandra

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June - Yard Sale 2010

Remember 2 weeks ago I mentioned that I was in the process of getting ready for our annual yard sale.  Well here are a few photos of us getting ready.  Let me tell you, it was sooooooo hot!  98 to 100  degrees every day.  The weather was so oppressively hot and the humidity was just as bad.  But anyways, we got through it.  We are going to try to have our last one at the end of September.  I am sure the weather will be much better and more buyer friendly.

My 3 grandgirls folded all the clothes and arranged them for us.  

Dennis helped carry "stuff" for us and get it all arranged.  Thanks!

Ben, my hunky grandson and muscles helped get all you see arranged nicely and he worked until he got so tired he sat and helped.  Wow, the stuff he carried and threw out for us.

Part of the Barbie collection Kathi and I bought to sell on ebay.  We have sold many, many dolls and we have all this to go.  See the boxes on the left, there is more in there.

Thanks for checking in.  Just thought I would share with you what I have been doing.  We worked for 2 1/2 weeks straight to get ready for the sale.  Not many people came.  Next time it will be better.

Thanks,

Sandra

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CONGRATULATIONS!

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Thank you everyone for your support.  It was fun and we will do it again soon.  Have a great weekend.

Sandra

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